Grant A. Kaplan, Ph.D. Associate Professor Department of Theological Studies Saint Louis University [email protected] Slu.Academia.Edu/Grantkaplan Education
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Grant A. Kaplan, Ph.D. Associate Professor Department of Theological Studies Saint Louis University [email protected] slu.academia.edu/GrantKaplan Education • B.A. (theology, history) from Boston College (1992–96) • Theological and philosophical study at University of Tübingen, Germany (1996–97) • Ph.D. in systematic theology from Boston College (1997–2003) Dissertation: “Answering the Enlightenment: Friedrich Schelling, Johannes Kuhn, and the Recovery of Historical Revelation” (directed by Michael Himes) • Theological study at University of Fribourg, Switzerland (2002–03) Research Fellowships/Awards (external only) • Fulbright Foundation, Research Grant, eleven months (Tübingen, 1996–97) • DAAD, Summer Research Grant, three months (Tübingen, 2000) • University of Fribourg, Dissertation Scholarship, Fribourg, Switzerland, ten months (2002–03) • Peter Thiel Foundation, Monograph Grant, one semester course release (2012) • Humboldt Foundation, Experienced Researcher Grant, eleven months (2015–2016) Professional Experience • Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Loyola University, New Orleans (2003–2007) • Assistant Professor of Theological Studies at Saint Louis University (2007–2011) • Associate Professor of Theological Studies at Saint Louis University (2011–) Doctoral Mentoring • Dissertations Directed: 1. Stephen Lawson, “Erik Peterson and the Interpretation of History in German Theology 1918–1939” (current) • Dissertations Read: 1. Charles Michael Shea, “Newman’s Early Legacy. Giovanni Perrone and Roman Readings of the Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine 1845–54” (2013) 2. Michael Pahls, “School of the Prophets: John Henry Newman’s Anglican Schola and the Ecclesial Vocation of the Theologian” (2015) 3. Ryan Marr, “’To Be Perfect Is to Have Changed Often’: The Development of John Henry Newman’s Ecclesiological Vision, 1845–77” (2015) 4. Erick Moser, “’Combat for Culture’: The Formation of Jean Daniélou’s Vision for the Church in Secular France, 1925–50” (2015) 5. Jonathan King, “Theology under another form: Hans Urs von Balthasar’s formation and writings as a Germanist,” (2016) 6. Matthew Muller, “The Inspired Bible in the Anglican Career of John Henry Newman” (2017) 7. James Lee, “Johannes von Hoffman and Nineteenth-Century German Theological Wissenschaft” (current) 1 8. Andrew Hamilton, “The anti-Hegelian Trinitarian Theology of Dorner and Staudenmaier” (current; external at Southern Methodist University) Professional Service Blind Reviewer • (presses): Oxford University, Crossroad/Herder, Saint Joseph’s University • (journals): Heythrop Journal, Modern Theology, Theological Studies, Irish Theological Quarterly • (tenure and promotion): Loyola University, Chicago (2016) • (grants & fellowships): Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Studies (2017) Convener • Catholic Theology Society of America (2011, Wildcard Session) • College Theology Society (2012, Contemporary Theologies Section) Board Member • Colloquium on Violence & Religion (2014–) Organizer • Annual meeting of the Colloquium on Violence & Religion (8–12 July, 2015) • Liaison for Colloquium on Violence & Religion at the American Academy of Religion (2017- 2019) Participant • International Lutheran Confederation—Roman Catholic Dialogue. Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, International Dialogue (2015–2018) Publications Books • Answering the Enlightenment. The Recovery of Historical Revelation in Nineteenth Century Germany (Crossroad/Herder, 2006). • Faithfully Seeking Understanding: The Selected Writings of Johannes Kuhn, edited and translated by Grant Kaplan (Catholic University of America Press 2009). • René Girard, Unlikely Apologist: Mimetic Theory and Fundamental Theology (University of Notre Dame Press, 2016). • Faith and Reason in Christian Theology, in Historical Trajectories Series (Fortress Press, under contract; est. 2018). Journal Articles • “What Has Ethics to Do with Rhetoric? Prolegomena to Any Future Just War Theory,” in Political Theology 6:1 (2005): 31–49. • “Diagnosing Modernity: Eric Voegelin’s Impact on the Worldview of Walker Percy,” in Religion and the Arts 15 (Summer 2011): 338–68. • “Getting History into Religion? Appropriating Nostra Aetate for the 21st Century,” in Heythrop Journal 52 (Fall 2011): 802–21. • “Widening the Dialectic: Secularity and Christianity in Conversation,” in Lonergan Workshop Journal 24 (2013): 133–68. 2 • “New Paths for a Girard/Lonergan Conversation: An Essay in Light of Robert Doran’s The Trinity in History,” in Method: Journal of Lonergan Studies NS 4:1 (2013): 23–38. • “Vatican II as a Constitutional Text of Faith,” in Horizons 41:1 (June 2014): 1–21. • “Between Rome and Tübingen: Rethinking Johann Adam Möhler’s Political Theology,” in Journal of Church and State 58:2 (Spring 2016): 234–60. • “Retrieval and Renewal: Chenu, the Tübingen School, and the Renewal of Theological Method in Optatam Totius,” in Theological Studies 77:3 (September 2016): 567–92. • “What Has Prussia to Do with Tübingen? The Political-Ecclesial Context of Möhler’s Symbolik,” in Pro Ecclesia (2017; accepted but not yet published) • “Schelling’s Influence on the Catholic Tübingen School,” in International Journal of Philosophy and Theology 79:1 (2018; special issue) Chapters in Edited Books • “Saint vs. Hero: René Girard's Undoing of Romantic Hagiology,” in Postmodern Saints of France, edited by Colby Dickinson (T&T Clark/Continuum, 2013): 153–67. • “Freiheit in der Dogmengeschichte? Das Verständnis kirchlicher Freiheit in der Tübinger Schule im Gespräch mit Raymund Schwagers Lehre von der Dogmenentwicklung,” in Das Drama der Freiheit im Disput: Das Kerngedanken der Theologie Raymund Schwagers, edited by Jozef Niewiadomski (Herder Verlag, 2017): 213–29. • “The New Atheism: Dawkins, Harris, Hitchens,” in Handbook of Mimetic Theory and Religion, edited by Wolfgang Palaver and James Alison (Palgrave MacMillan, est. 2017). • (with Holly Taylor Coolman) “Development of Doctrine,” in Oxford Handbook to Catholic Theology, edited by Lewis Ayres (Oxford University Press, no publication date). • “Roman Catholic Perspectives: The Nineteenth Century,” in Oxford Handbook of the Reception of Christian Theology, edited by Sarah Coakley and Richard Cross (Oxford University Press, no est. publication date). Additional Articles • “Can Doctrine Develop? Reflections on the German Contribution,” (Loyola University of New Orleans Press, 2004): 1–21. • “Celibacy as Political Resistance,” in First Things 239 (January, 2014): 49–54. • “Renewing the Tradition: The Theological Project of James Alison,” in America Magazine 210 (19 May, 2014): 25–27. • “From Tübingen to the Tiber: An Interview with Peter Hünermann,” in Commonweal 143 (7 October, 2016): 25–29. Encyclopedia Articles • “Johann Adam Möhler,” and “Catholic Tübingen School,” in Encyclopedia of Christian Civilization, edited by George Kurian (Oxford: Wiley/Blackwell, 2012). • “Johannes Kuhn,” in Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception, edited by Sebastian Fuhrmann (De Gruyter, est. 2017). Book Reviews • Stephen Pope and Charles Hefling eds. Sic et Non: Encountering Dominus Iesus in Heythrop Journal 44:4 (Fall 2003): 521–23. • Frederick Beiser, German Idealism: The Struggle Against Subjectivism in Review of Metaphysics 57 (December 2003): 385–87. • David B Hart, The Beauty of the Infinite in Nova et Vetera 2 (Fall 2004): 538–42. • Robert Miner, Truth in the Making in The Thomist 69 (January 2005): 165–69. 3 • Jerry Day, Voegelin, Schelling, and the Philosophy of Historical Existence in Nova et Vetera 3 (Fall 2005): 859–62. • Lawrence Cunningham, A Brief History of Saints in Religious Studies Review 32 (January 2006): 48–49. • Michael Buckley, Denying and Disclosing God. The Ambiguous Progress of Modern Atheism in Nova et Vetera 4 (Winter 2006): 205–8. • Julian Young, Nietzsche’s Philosophy of Religion in Review of Metaphysics 61 (September 2007): 171–72. • Johann Adam Möhler, The Spirit of Celibacy, eds. Dieter Hattrup and Rev. Emery de Gaal in Nova et Vetera 7:2 (Spring 2009): 529–32. • William Cavanaugh, The Myth of Religious Violence. Secular Ideology and the Roots of Modern Conflict in Theological Studies 71 (June 2010): 479–81. • Michael Printy, Enlightenment and the Creation of German Catholicism in Theological Studies 71 (June 2010): 468–70. • John J. Ranieri, Disturbing Revelation: Leo Strauss, Eric Voegelin, and the Bible in Review of Politics 72:3 (2010): 555–57. • David G. Schultenover, S.J. ed., The Reception of Pragmatism in France & the Rise of Roman Catholic Modernism, 1890–1914 in Catholic Historical Review 96:4 (2010): 745–47. • Miriam Pawel, The Union of Their Dreams. Power, Hope, and Struggle in Cesar Chavez’s Farm Worker Movement in Bulletin of the Colloquium on Violence and Religion 37 (October 2010): 20–22. • Jonathan Israel, A Revolution of the Mind: Radical Enlightenment and the Intellectual Origins of Modern Democracy in Christian Century 128:2 (25 January, 2011): 36–37. • Hubert Wolf, Pope and Devil. The Vatican’s Archives and the Third Reich in Review of Politics 73:3 (2011): 502–3. • Robert Daly, Sacrifice Unveiled. The True Meaning of Christian Sacrifice in Political Theology 13:2 (Spring 2012): 267–69. • Michael Legaspi, The Death of Scripture and the Rise of Biblical Studies in Theological Studies 73 (September 2012): 694–96. • Ulrich Lehner, Enlightened Monks: The German Benedictines 1740–1803 in Pro Ecclesia (2013): 230–34. • Scott Cowdell, René Girard and Secular Modernity: Christ, Culture, and Crisis in Theological Studies 75:1 (2014): 178–79.